Word: sec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denmark's 20-year-old Ragnhild Hveger, who made no great splash in the 1936 Olympics, has since shattered 15 of the 16 women's free-style marks. She has flailed 100 yards in 59.7 sec., one mile in 23 min. 11.5 sec...
...Hollywood's Johnny Weissmuller still holds one world's record: 51 sec. flat for 100 yards (free-style), set at Ann Arbor, Mich...
...Chicago's keg-chested, kite-footed Adolph Kiefer, 23-year-old drama student, holds all five world's backstroke records. He has done 100 yards in 58.8 sec., 400 meters in 5 min. 13.4 sec...
...backstroke, Eleanor Holm's spectacular figures have long been washed away. In Rotterdam two years ago, Holland's young Cor Kint set four world's backstroke records: 100 yards, 100 meters, 150 yards, 200 meters. Her record-breaking time for 100 yards is 1:05.1-4.7 sec. faster than the U.S. record set by glamorous Gloria Callen last spring...
...White Water" at the last championship meet in 1938. Champion Herron, who once doubled for Cinemactor El Brendel in the log-driving scenes in God's Country and the Woman, had a tough time defending his crown. He won the first fall in 9 min., 2 sec., but lost the second in 3:10. On the "toothpick," with the count tied, the hardy old Tiger had to use every trick he had learned in ten years of river logging before his collegiate adversary hit the water with the seat of his plaid pants. It had taken...